Learning Quotes
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.Ernest Hemingway
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.Jiddu Krishnamurti
Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.Abigail Adams
More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind.James Waddell Alexander, II
All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.Benjamin McLane Spock
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.Albert Einstein
Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.Oscar Wilde
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.Umberto Eco
No man is wiser for his learning, wit and wisdom are born with a man.John Selden
Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.Lyndon B. Johnson
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.Euripides, Phrixus
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.Bill Gates, Business @ The Speed of Thought
Learning makes a man fit company for himself.Thomas Fulle
Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.Henry Ford
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.Fred Astaire
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.Roy Blount Jr.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance.... Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.Denis Watley
The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own.William James
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.W. Edwards Deming
A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.Author Unknown
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world - Art, or philosophy, or learning - Regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.Freya Stark
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.Edward Gibbon
Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.Confucius
Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.Lord Chesterfield
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.Samuel Butle
He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.Danish Prove
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.John Jay Chapman
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.Eric Hoffe
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.Helen Kelle
Learning builds daily accumulation, but the prictice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it.Lao - Tzu, Tao te Ching
It was an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn, that was revealed to me by my BLS masters as a matter of interdisciplinary cognition - That is, learning to know something by its relation to something else.Leonard Bernstein
One of the things about being a grown - Up is learning how to act right even when you feel wrong.Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.Bob Edwards
Learning is acquired by reading books but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Health is worth more than learning.Thomas Jefferson, letter to his cousin John Garland Jefferson, June 11, 1790
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.Jeremy Taylo
